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Sunday

Syllables: Sun·day/ˈsʌn.deɪ/

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Northern England/ˈsʊn.deɪ/

Sunday noun: the first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.

Noun

Sunday (plural Sundays)

  1. The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.
    • Every day is like Sunday / Every day is silent and grey1988, Morrissey, “Everyday Is Like Sunday”, in Viva Hate
    • And after missing a simple header in the first half, the Manchester United striker ensured England topped Group D to set up a quarter-final meeting with Italy in Kiev on Sunday.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport
    Synonyms:
    First Day, Lord's Day, Sun//Sun.
  2. (informal) A newspaper published on Sunday.
    • I gave him the switchboard with my love, went down to the Savoy for breakfast and read the Sundays.1974, John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  3. (informal) A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.
    • It just wasn't his thing, although he did beautiful Sundays for however long he did them. So as soon as he could, he hired someone to do the Sundays. Karen and I would do some dailies, but we were the Sunday artists.2017, Mark Arnold, Pocket Full of Dennis the Menace
  4. (attributive, informal) Describes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.
    • Your face is the color of a Sunday swimmer who swallowed half the pool.2010 November 9, Rosemary Wells, On the Blue Comet, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 113
    • My limbs felt hollow, empty. Empty, empty, empty. A Sunday cyclist on a casual ride could have passed me.2010 March 30, Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts, Random House, →ISBN, page 51
  5. (attributive, informal) Describes something particularly fine and elegant, particularly something that could be worn to or used at church.
    • His father replies with a special tone of voice (his 'Sunday voice', which he also used for reading fairy tales): 'That is about the tragedy of human beings!'2002, Emanuel Zeylmans, Willem Zeylmans Van Emmichoven: An Inspiration for Anthroposophy : a Biography, Temple Lodge Publishing, →ISBN, page 9
    • It landed on the wire mesh in front of me, thrust its thin, monkey-arm through the wire, seized my Sunday hat, blue satin ribbons, rosettes and all, and squealing in triumph made off with it, leaping and bounding, to the top of the monkey-tree.2010, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill, Boolarong Press, →ISBN, page 150

Verb

Sunday (third-person singular simple present Sundays, present participle Sundaying, simple past and past participle Sundayed)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).
    • I waded through accounts of new calves and colts, new fences and barns, who “Sundayed” with his brother, etc., and soon had a list of all the cases in that part of the country.1910, Arthur B. Reeve, The Silent Bullet, section III
    • The dogs and I were Sundaying on the garden lawn.1944, Emily Carr, “Kipling”, in The House of All Sorts

Adverb

Sunday (not comparable)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) On Sunday.

Sunday meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Sunday in Hindi

day of the week
रविवार ravivār, इतवार itvār, एतवार etvār, आदित्यवार ādityavār, भानुवार bhānuvār, सूर्यवार sūryavār

Sunday in Tamil

day of the week
ஞாயிறு ñāyiṟu, ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை ñāyiṟṟukkiḻamai

Sunday in Marathi

day of the week
रविवार ravivār

Sunday in Urdu

day of the week
اِتْوَار itvār, رَوِیوار ravīvār, ایتْوَار etvār, یَک شَنْبَہ yak śanba, یَومُ الْاَحَد yaumu l-ahad
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Sunday in Bengali
রবিবার robibar
Sunday in Telugu
ఆదివారం ādivāraṁ, రవివారము ravivāramu
Sunday in Malayalam
ഞായര് ñāyarŭ
Sunday in Kannada
ಭಾನುವಾರ bhānuvāra
Sunday in Punjabi
ਐਤਵਾਰ aitavār
Sunday in Gujarati
રવિવાર ravivār, દિતવાર ditvār
Sunday in Odia
ରବିବାର rabibāra
Sunday in Sanskrit
रविवार ravivāra, आदित्यवारम् ādityavāram, भानुवार bhānuvāra
Sunday in Sinhala
ඉරිදා iridā
Sunday in Assamese
দেওবাৰ deübar, ৰবিবাৰ robibar
Sunday in Nepali
आइतबार āitabār, रविवार raviwār
Sunday in Pashto
يکشنبه yakšanbá, اتبار itbār
Sunday in Tagalog
Linggo, Dominggo
Sunday in Arabic
الْأَحَد al-ʔaḥad, يَوْم الْأَحَد yawm al-ʔaḥad
Sunday in Malay
hari Ahad, Ahad, hari Minggu, Minggu
Sunday in Indonesian
Minggu, Ahad
Sunday in Thai
วันอาทิตย์ wan aa-tít, อาทิตย์ aa-tít
Sunday in Vietnamese
Chủ nhật, Chúa nhật
Sunday in Myanmar
တနင်္ဂနွေ ta.nangga.nwe
Sindhi
آچَرُ āčaru
Dhivehi
އާދިއްތަ āditta
Kashmiri
آتھوار āthvār
Dzongkha
ཟླ་བ zla ba

Examples of Sunday in a sentence

  • But on that Sunday it was filled with Episcopalians from around the country who had traveled to South Bend to attend his campaign launch.2019 August 16, Daniel Burke, “How Pete Buttigieg found God”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2021:
  • Below, a Sunday painter dabs at a canvas near the Pont Neuf, his suit as natty as any Landru wore.2010 December 15, Peter Everett, Matisse's War, Random House, →ISBN:
  • An alcoholic can never become a “Sunday drinker”.2016 January 18, Renars Sidrabs, Memoirs of a Drunk, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
  • On the day of the show I decided to wear my good blue Sunday suit, even though Ms.2011 April 29, Tommy Chamberlain, A Spoon Full of Sugar, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 6:

Synonyms of Sunday

Forms of Sunday

Noun
pluralSundays
Verb
third-person singular presentSundays
present participleSundaying
past participleSundayed
pastSundayed

Origin of Sunday

From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Sunnōn dag (literally “day of the Sun”), equivalent to sun + day, as a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 C.E. Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag, Yiddish זונטיק (zuntik).

Words formed from Sunday

Phrases with Sunday

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Words that rhyme with Sunday

Questions about Sunday

What does Sunday mean?
Sunday means the first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.
What is Sunday in Hindi?
Sunday in Hindi is रविवार (ravivār), इतवार (itvār), एतवार (etvār). See Sunday meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Sunday in a sentence?
But on that Sunday it was filled with Episcopalians from around the country who had traveled to South Bend to attend his campaign launch.
What part of speech is Sunday?
Sunday can be a noun, a verb or an adverb.
How do you pronounce Sunday?
Sunday is pronounced /ˈsʌn.deɪ/.
What is the plural of Sunday?
The plural of Sunday is Sundays.

Words near Sunday in the dictionary

  1. sundaris
  2. Sundars
  3. Sundas
  4. sundawn
  5. sundawns
  6. Sunday
  7. Sunday beer
  8. Sunday best
  9. Sunday board
  10. Sunday boards
  11. Sunday Christian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sunday (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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